In “The U.S.A. Needs to Talk to the Taliban” a New York Times op-ed run on March 19, Borhan Osman mistakenly reduces the popularly elected National Unity Government (NUG) of Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan to 1 of the internal “factions.” To the contrary, the NUG enjoys a wide pop mandate as well as support. Like whatever democracy, Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan is hardly devoid of political differences, which underpin the rattling meat of democracy: holler back tensions inwards the U.S.A. two-party scheme or inwards the multiparty coalition governments of Europe. Afghans as well as those they elected inwards the NUG firmly stand upwards behind the grand peace offering made to the Taliban past times President Ashraf Ghani. National consensus inwards Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan demands a just, genuine peace against ongoing state of war as well as violence.
Second, past times quoting a ghost website inwards Islamic Republic of Pakistan as well as referring to his unconfirmed chats with rental militants inwards the field, Osman inadvertently extends legitimacy to an external terror campaign, whose principal victims are innocent Afghans. Back-to-back surveys past times the Asia Foundation detect Afghans to last firmly behind the NUG as well as the continuation of the introduce constitutional guild inwards Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan against anything that the Taliban represents.
Directorate-S past times Steve Coll elaborates on the purpose of Islamic Republic of Pakistan equally a nation sponsor of terrorism, continuing to bleed America as well as Afghanistan. That is why Afghans warmly welcomed President Donald Trump’s novel Southern Asia strategy to address the origin of the safety occupation inwards Afghanistan.
Third, around of the rattling divided Taliban factions, which Osman discusses, cause got begun considering peace talks, piece others cause got welcomed the upcoming Peace Conference of Muslim Clerics (Ulema), hosted past times Indonesia, inwards back upwards of the Kabul Process. That is why the the States rightly refuses to speak to the divided Taliban, upholding its commitment — with thirty other countries as well as international organizations — to an Afghan-led as well as Afghan-owned peace process.
Hence, strategic patience — non only a few weeks of waiting — is necessary to ensure the outset of a results-driven circular of negotiations for a sustainable political short town against a delicate peace deal, which Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan 1 time experienced nether the 1988 Geneva Peace Accord. On March 27, the participants of the Kabul Process met over again inwards Tashkent, Uzbekistan to hash out the means forward, inwards business with the provisions as well as principles of the announced peace offer. The Afghan Taliban must interruption gratuitous from unusual command as well as influence to comprehend peace against farther killing of their ain long-suffering people as well as devastation of their beautiful homeland.
M. Ashraf Haidari is director-general of policy & strategy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan. He tweets @MAshrafHaidari
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